Lectures on the English PoetsTaylor and Hessey, 1819 - 331 páginas |
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... face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the ...
... face of a person who has just trod upon a serpent with the still - life expres- sion of a common portrait , as the poet to describe the most striking and vivid impressions which things can be supposed to make upon the mind , in the ...
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... Faces are the best part of a picture ; but even faces are not what we chiefly remember in what interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than Titian's portraits , than ...
... Faces are the best part of a picture ; but even faces are not what we chiefly remember in what interests us most . - But it may be asked then , Is there any thing better than Claude Lorraine's landscapes , than Titian's portraits , than ...
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... face of a person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind ...
... face of a person who has seen some object of horror . The improbability of the events , the abruptness and monotony in the Inferno , are excessive but the interest never flags , from the continued earnestness of the author's mind ...
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... face hath had , Men mighten know him that was so bestad , Amonges all the faces in that route ; So stant Custance , and loketh hire aboute . " The beauty , the pathos here does not seem to be of the poet's seeking , but a part of the ...
... face hath had , Men mighten know him that was so bestad , Amonges all the faces in that route ; So stant Custance , and loketh hire aboute . " The beauty , the pathos here does not seem to be of the poet's seeking , but a part of the ...
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... face , as it hadde ben anoint . He was a lord ful fat and in good point . His eyen stepe , and rolling in his hed , That stemed as a forneis of a led . His botes souple , his hors in gret estat , 48 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
... face , as it hadde ben anoint . He was a lord ful fat and in good point . His eyen stepe , and rolling in his hed , That stemed as a forneis of a led . His botes souple , his hors in gret estat , 48 ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER .
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Página 279 - The effect of reading this old ballad is as if all our hopes and fears hung upon the last fibre of the heart, and we felt that giving way. What silence, what loneliness, what leisure for grief and despair '. ' My father pressed me sair, my mother didna speak. But she looked in my face till my heart was like to break.